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Ice Cream Baby Quilt

January 11, 2015

When I found out my brother in laws cousins were expecting a baby I was incredibly excited for them! I may have been slightly more excited when I found out they were expecting a girl. As I have four nephews I don't get to sew girly things very often.

When planning this quilt I was inspired by this mini quilt by Heather from Quilt Story. I fell head over heels in love with it when I saw it on Instagram.

Even though I had never tried paper piecing before following this tutorial from Sew We Quilt I found it rather straight forward. Even with the mess it left on the floor of my sewing room.

I enlarged the blocks to a percentage I can't quite remember. The quilt ended up quite a nice baby size. The fabrics are mostly scrappy some Bonnie and Camille, Sweetwater, Michael Miller and Spotlight. The main fabric is of course Ombre by V and Co for Moda.

I purchased the backing from East Coast Fabrics (My favourite fabric store, very thankful I live an hour from the nearest one!).

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All rolled up and ready to gift next week!

The binding fabric was from Spotlight, bought on a whim because it was perfect for binding.

HELLO

Hi! I'm Emma! I'm a 23 year old from South East Queensland, Australia. My day job is an administration officer but when I get home it's hard to drag me away from my sewing machine. I chronicle all my sewing adventures here on my blog, A Hand Stitched Life. Take a look around and feel free to drop me a line :)